“Have underaged girls speaking out ruined island parties?” By Landon Thomas Jr. for The New York Times

Fox News is doing everything in its power to shift today’s Trump—Epstein story to anything other than what the emails revealed about a sitting president’s relationship to a child sex offender.

We have had enough winning. by Senate Democrats

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Larry Ellison is worth $300 billion. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

I’m finishing a book about billionaires and trillion-dollar investment firms behind the news. Waking up to a blue wave, I can’t help but think Mamdani and other pols surging in a period of deepening inequality are going to face the full brunt of those media owners’ political power and wealth.

Ahh The New York Post… For nights you want to read about a historic election with record turnout but get reminded a billionaire owns it.

This is Cuomo last month at a Durga puja in Queens. If white reporters had covered it they would hear him endorse diversity as the strength of NYC — the opposite of what he tells white voters. BUT … (thread)

The news should reflect daily just how much these bungling politicians’ failure falls on children.

Conservatives in 2025: College must have viewpoint diversity! The viewpoint diversity conservatives offer in 2025: The right-wing mag parroted an Adolf Hitler speech. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

Saudi Arabia controls your Sims now.

The big tech founder who has a 256-foot $75 million superyacht to "shadow" his 417-foot $500 million superyacht, because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad, is very worried about his newspaper's financials

If you’ve stopped subscribing to corporate news this is a semi-regular reminder hundreds of non-profit newsrooms like @themainemonitor.org are doing essential accountability work. Give to them. themainemonitor.org/platner-tatt...

🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way. Hear why this is a public service and good for business, ft. @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, Caitlin Vogus, and Lauren Harper. 🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 pm EDT RSVP: freedom.press/unpaywalled

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end” —Anthony Kennedy www.kut.org/politics/202...

MCCALLUM: “Margaret Thatcher said socialism’s great until you run out of other people’s money.” 🔥ZOHRAN: “Cuomo had $900 million and gave it to Elon musk in tax credits— I wish the debate were like NASCAR so people could see logos of billionaires who sponsor him on his jacket.”

Solidarity is the only way

Penn State Board of Trustees reconsidering a sale of WPSU that would allow public media to continue to serve the people of Central Pennsylvania based on the community's outpouring of support. Here's hoping they honor the land-grant mission of the university to serve the people of the Commonwealth.

They aren’t influencers or journalists. They’re propagandists, and it’s a tactic pulled straight from the authoritarian playbook. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

Et tu, New York Times? But sure let’s give a platform to the head of a global private equity firm working to undermine democratic institutions—including the news media—working to hold them accountable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down from @sivav.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

I don’t know America’s largest newspaper chain, is it?

Using comedy to support people in power is the opposite of what comedy is there for. Check out the new Factually! episode with @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3H3P... » YouTube: youtu.be/zbq7dcSWi-c

Carr in 2022

Nothing since this Deadspin piece has more succinctly captured the threat posed by corporate media owners like Sinclair enabled by a lapdog FCC. And then private equity gutted Deadspin, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHf...

ABC just announced Jimmy Kimmel’s replacement.

I'm just an ordinary First Amendment lawyer but I'm pretty sure you can't transform "protesting the president" into criminal activity by recharacterizing it as "inflicting harm on the United States."

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

A colleague on campus today asked me why I’d forgo office w/a window & I reminded her I get active & credible death threats. When I ended up on the Turning Point professor list I got them for a month. We have got to raise better humans & change our gun laws. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Come work with us at @tinynewscollective.bsky.social !

So the Florida political crowd is convinced the government shouldn’t tell people what to do with their bodies?! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Great work by @owenab.com for the Investigative Reporting Workshop on @ctmirror.org use of AI to enhance its reporting. www.poynter.org/tech-tools/a...

This is the real Washington, D.C. Teachers greeting students outside the Eastern Market Metro on the first day of school. ❤️

New Details Emerge on Fox Hosts’ Efforts to Bolster Trump in 2020 “Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

Media conglomerates watching universities capitulate to executive intimidation but still lose think their cash will buy them a different result. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Given today’s Medina v. Planned Parenthood decision, the New York Times decision to publish this just gets more and more embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Me (out of breath): We must aggressively protect journalism in democracy. Journalism in democracy:

@jordanklepper.bsky.social in your city is like seeing Jim Cantore arrive before a hurricane! Hope all the journalists out here on the National Mall stay safe today. ✌🏼

Breaking: The House just voted to grant Trump’s request and defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This is bad news for independent journalism and the communities that rely on NPR and PBS. Our statement: www.freepress.net/news/house-v...

Poynter set to track press freedom threats posed by “the current administration, and those who follow its playbook” adding: “We’re here to document and describe the erosion of press freedom — clearly, publicly and before it’s too late.” www.poynter.org/commentary/2...